SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court clarified Monday that injured workers who sue parties other than their employers...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling Monday in a wage dispute that ducks a statewide controver...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a securities fraud lawsuit Monday against Edward D. Jones & Co., ...

LOS ANGELES - A runoff will decide who will replace Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Donna Groman. Neither of the two t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Police Department is failing to live up to the consent decree in "the Riders" misconduct case, wi...

LOS ANGELES - A jury Friday rejected claims that former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti and his underlings retaliat...

LOS ANGELES - A noncustodial parent is entitled to an evidentiary hearing to decide whether his former wife can move out of st...

SACRAMENTO - Proposed emergency regulations intended to stop lawsuits against employers accused of failure to give their work...

SAN DIEGO - The e-mail - brief and impersonal - burned like high-voltage electricity. Attorney Craig Leff and his wife had com...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Government Accountability Office has given a mixed review to the proposal to build a $400 million feder...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Aaron Tonken, a former houseboy for Zsa Zsa Gabor who is serving a 63-month prison term for illicit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Matthew Powers, the litigator credited with building Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Silicon Valley practice from...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court upheld Monday the constitutionality of a statute that criminalizes funding organizati...

Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - "A nation's moral life is the foundation of its culture." - Robert Bork ...

One of Los Angeles' largest law firms and the city's only female citywide officeholder were among the recipients of the Abby J...

By Amy K. Spees Former state Environmental Protection Agency staffer Michael Buck, having built McDonough Holland & Allen...

Closer Column - By Ray Jurado - When a firm - a corporation or public entity - becomes aware of an alleged breach of internal ...

It takes a skilled lawyer to compel his corporate counterpart to reconsider a "lost cause" client. Take disability-law legend ...

INDUSTRIAL LONG BEACH - Kendrick Construction purchased a 219,000-square-foot industrial building at 100 W. Victoria St. from ...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Seemingly small tiffs - over the height of fences, the color of outdoor paint schemes, barking dogs - ofte...

A cluster of desktop computer makers in Asia and America exhaled in relief after Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District...

Luminaries of the legal, political and entertainment world gathered this month to honor a married couple, both lawyers, for th...

Bryan Cave gave a boost to its Southern California real estate practice in November by snaring partner Linda S. Koffman from t...

The addition of nine attorneys to Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker helped the county's largest law firm strengthen its grip on...

WASHINGTON - Recent changes to judicial ethics guidelines could make it easier for federal judges to accept expense-paid trip...

Forum Column - By David I. Levine - A bare majority of the state Supreme Court has given cautious endorsement to the catalyst ...

SAN DIEGO - In a move described as "aggressive," San Diego's new city attorney will weigh in this week on the controversy swi...

The city of Newport Beach has made its first city-attorney appointment in 20 years, and for the first time, it's a woman. Acti...

SAN FRANCISCO - Townsend and Townsend and Crew has filed a lawsuit against a New York insurance company seeking $273,305 in w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Death row inmate Donald Beardslee had a roller coaster Thursday. Within the space of a few hours last week, a...